ICROSS past and future

We are building a section on this site to share key successes and achievements of ICROSS over the last three decades

The section will cover everything from our fight against suffering and starvation and the decades of Medical work in hundreds of communities in Africa. This year we celebrate thirty years of improving health in Africa by sharing a series of articles, images and interviews. Like this, one of our first articles on poverty appearing in the LANCET medical journal in 1981to the BBC interview shown this week 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4675531.stm

As ICROSS begins new and ambitious disease control programmes it is important to remember the experience and history that has created a unique and dynamic set of long term projects. Together with pioneers like Dr Joe Barnes and Dr David Morley ICROSS developed community owned medical services that have stood the test of time. This month we unveil exciting new initiatives to extend child-survival and safe motherhood.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 12:51 GMT 13:51 UK
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Africa '05 - Michael Meegan
Stephen Sackur with Dr Michael Meegan (right) in the Rift Valley.

In a HARDtalk interview on July 21st, Stephen Sackur talks to Dr Michael Meegan in Kenya's Rift Valley.

Click here to watch the full interview

The recent G8 Summit at Gleneagles ended with an agreement to boost aid for developing countries by $50 billion.

The debt of some of Africa's poorest countries is also being cancelled. Michael Meegan runs a small charity trying to help some of Africa's poorest.

He doesn't think debt relief and more aid are the answer to the complex issue of lifting people out of poverty.

He talks to Stephen Sackur near one of his clinics in the Rift Valley - the home of the Masaai people.

HARDtalk can be seen on BBC World at 03:30 GMT, 0830 GMT, 1530 GMT, 1830 GMT, 2330 GMT